Follows an escalating war of words with President Trump and kim jongun. This other story from the hill. Robert mueller, the special counselor begins interviewing white house staff for the russian probe. It is not welcome news to anyone in the oval office. I seemed to have lost the link. Lets go to the phones. A call from columbia, maryland on the line for independents. Good morning. Caller i want to talk about the response to puerto rico. Im originally from puerto rico. I have been off the island for 10 years. I go down every couple months, have family there, my wife and all of her family is there. Im sick and tired of the president trying to paint this picture as if everything is fine , that the response is going great, that they are doing a wonderful job. It is false. It is false. I will give them something which , we need more troops and people in there. The government of puerto rico is completely overwhelmed. Ive been volunteering here in d. C. I know what is going on in their office here. They have no idea what they are doing. They need all the help they can get. We need the military to step up. I know they have been doing it, the threestar general down there says a couple days ago that 5000 troops, but it is not enough. We need people to put pressure on congress and the president. People are dying. There is a lot of things going on that they are not getting there. Not only that but we here in the mainland, trying to get donations down there, we are getting so many hurdles to go through. These are u. S. Citizens. We need help. The Homeland Security adviser at the white house said this week that there were enough resources that were prepositioned. That the military response was adequate. That there is a disconnect between the resources and the personnel. And the islands ability to absorb that. What you think about that . Guest with all respect, he is wrong. To theng to point threestar general, i cannot remember his name. On the First Press Conference he did in puerto rico, he answered by saying, it is not enough, what we have on the ground. Everything that needs to be done at this point right now, at this point of crisis, has to do with the military. We have the most amazing military in the world. We need to use it to rebuild. What we are for saying. Send more troops. It is false that they cant absorb it. The ports are starting to open, the airport is starting to move. The response, there was a delay between when things got in and what they have to do. The prepositioning that fema had it was not because of most of those resources were being used not for puerto rico but for the of theislands because hurricane two weeks before destroyed them. Most of those folks went to puerto rico for help, and went back right before maria. When they say we prepositioned resources on the island, it wasnt paid for the purpose of maria or that type of distraction. Second of all, it was never intended to adjust puerto rico alone. Those resources. Host we have a treaty or from President Trump. I will be going to puerto rico on tuesday with malani and will hopefully be able to stop at the u. S. Virgin islands. People working hard. We have john calling from rio rancho, new mexico, on the line for republicans. Caller wow. Glad bless them in puerto rico. They need all the help. Sick. Been my voice is not 100 . Ive been studying radiation for many years. The fukushimaying disaster since it occurred. Im not a licensed expert, i dont work in the Nuclear Industry but i followed kevin blanche, who did. He is currently dying of leukemia. He did work in the Nuclear Industry. And tedouse Corporation Co corporation and a 50yearold design on all the Nuclear Plants in america. They put the generators below sea level. A were in the basement. When the wave came in from the tsunami, it immediately flooded the generators. Anyone who watched what happened in katrina knows you dont put generators in the basement of a building and expect them to work after a storm. Water goes into the basement. They had two cores that melted at fukushima. The one that was in operation and a spent core. They didnt remove the spent core, they stored in a fuel will of water in the second story above the working poor. You have a working core that is core. Above the working hot like a son and one that is used, slightly cooler in a pool of dirty radiated water just above it on the second level. When there was no more water to be circulated and cool the pools , number one melted down and they both melted down into the ground. Scientists from nasa think it may still be melting through the earth and not stop until it gets to the center. What does this mean for us . I dont know. Metrics of radiation is coming out of there right now. More than has ever been released. Host ok. Rob from phoenix, arizona on the line for democrats. Good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to talk about the Upcoming Federal Court trial on october 4 with joe arpaio. In phoenix, he will face his last day in court given that he is been pardoned by President Trump. There have been several filings given that basically argue against the pardon. Most recently, 33 members of Congress Filed a brief with the bert asking that the pardon argued against in court. The judge will have the join enity to either and those opponents of the or dismiss the case entirely on wednesday. Taxpayers has caused to lose millions of dollars. This contempt charge that he is him, as aght against power of the court, the judiciary. By trump pardoning this he is basically encroached upon separation of powers. The branches of the government. There is a strong argument that not allowing the judiciary to complete its process, this pardon is invalid. We will find out on wednesday what the court, whether there is any empowerment of federal , make surearry out their orders are carried out by people within the court. The federal court found that he did not obey the orders of judge murray snow so it passed over to another judge. To prosecute the criminal contempt charges and that is what is being argued against this coming wednesday. Host a bit more detail you. This is from the local abc affiliate in phoenix. Couldutors say joe arpaio have his criminal case dismissed but he should not be able to erase or seal the court record entirely. Of course, arpaio was pardoned by President Donald Trump in august. Lets hear from mary on the line for independents. Caller good morning, sir, i love cspan. I wanted to call in regarding Race Relations and the police. I have been held as an enemy combatant in the state of virginia. Ive been interrogated by the police on my christian beliefs in california. Ive been abused by the police and i am caucasian. I wanted to tell the africanamericans that they are doing it to us to and they have blacklisted me from working. Nervous and i figured i had to get the word out. Host ok. Maryland on the line for republicans. Good morning, pat. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I thought i saw a show a couple years ago, bill gates were working on machinery or equipment or technology that would take away Nuclear Power plants and recycle it and make new energy and phase out the bad part. It was a show i saw a year ago or so. Also, i dont understand everybody complaining about trump. He is a businessman was very successful. He is just trying to get the economy going again. People say that taxes will cost the economy. That is how you get a kick started again. Bring back jobs and money. To me it is common sense. Host lets hear from nancy calling from georgia. Nancy is a republican. Caller good morning. Good morning. Host good morning. Caller im calling about the situation in puerto rico. I just heard the secretary of state praising. Ive been reading a history of how we came by that territory which is really beautiful. Teddy roosevelt one that colony and the organic act of 1907 they were granted citizenship but they were given the option of staying puerto ricans. They are not a state, they are a commonwealth. Every person is a u. S. Citizen but you could give every homeless man woman and child in america a Million Dollars for the money they owe or once spent. I think those folks can come back to the mainland but they owe almost a hundred billion dollars. You have a right to be a citizen but you dont have the right to ask the u. S. Government to build you a home in the caribbean. I think it is silly. We should bring them here to america. Thank you. Host lets hear from tony calling from illinois. Tony is a democrat. Caller good morning. Im not a democrat but i have two statements. One about the radioactive thing i dont knowthing, nothing about puerto rico. 20 years ago i was in puerto rico during a video for the International Brotherhood of policeman. I noticed something about the island. It is 90 miles round by 45 miles wide. It is nothing. There are People Living in shanty towns. People are pretty poor there to begin with. The lady that called and said they should be moved off the island and they owe money, you know what . It is nothing. It is beautiful. They have some fishing. It is a u. S. Territory. That belongs to us. We should take care of them. They are human beings. That to the side now. San luis obispo there is a Nuclear Power plant called diablo. At that time i was dating a lady that was inside security. Top line. She would verify whether the contractors could do any work in the plants. They had to do background checks. She was certified. Obyl went off. Hern andpped her brief case open got to see the true reaction of what happened. The last ring, calcium was dropping on grass and cows are eating it and it is going straight to the bones and milk and you couldnt eat swedish stock. The norwegians destroyed all those reindeer. Radiation is no joke. We should stay with green, solar, wind. Get away from the radiation. Have a great day. Love each other. Lets go back to puerto rico and listen to President Trump speaking friday afternoon touting the administrations successes as he sees it regarding the federal relief effort. [video clip] as far as puerto rico is concerned that has been going really well. Total devastation. We have over 10,000 people in puerto rico right now. Were getting Truck Drivers because the people from puerto rico, the drivers are not there. They are looking to their homes, they have other problems. Likewise with the police force. I think it is going really well considering. Rick scott was just governor of florida, rick is going to get involved. Also with an order rico also with puerto rico. Strides. Ade tremendous a very tough situation. A big question is, what happens, we have to rebuild. If you look at it, the electric is gone, the roads are gone, the telecommunications are gone. It is all gone. The real question is, what is going to happen later . It is a tough situation. The loss of life is always tragic but it has been an incredible, the results that we have had with respect to loss of life. People cant believe how successful that has been relatively speaking. Floridats go to tampa where we have helen on the line for republicans. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host what is on your mind . Caller i would like to make a suggestion. Instead of the United States putting so many troops over there in puerto rico, we need to think about it, with north korea in such a volatile stage right now, why dont we hire the people of puerto rico, the strong, the young, the able, the old, anyone who wants to work, why dont we hire them to do all that work in help clean up their own homeland . Them get rewarded with food and water and money and shelter. It seems like it would do so much better. Host lets go to brooksville, florida. Muriel on the line for republicans. Good morning. Caller good morning. Last night on fox, he had on an africanamerican man. Good,gosh, he spoke so that tucker had no words. He was speechless. Nice, i wishe so you would have them on your station. I do not remember the name, all speechless. Was the way this man spoke. Im sure you can look on the computer. Know, thatd like to people still call themselves africanamerican, why cant they just be american . They came over when people sold african people. If they really dont like it here and they think it is going to lets go to roslyn, new york where we have charlie on the line. I would like to send out my prayers with the great and beautiful puerto rican people. I called up my congressperson a couple days ago about the jones act, that they should allow those, that aid in sooner. They should have let them in sooner. Rico whoe of puerto are american citizens and the American People are very vulnerable right now because we dont have a Progressive Movement to push things along. We have identity politics in the place of that. Phony progressivism or whatever you want to call it. It is taking the place of a genuine movement that would help everything. In this situation it would move things along without a doubt. The people would be united. The American People would not be vulnerable. A call from tyler, texas on the line for independents. Caller good morning. Im calling to make a comment on inwhat has been going the world. Puerto rico, these people are United States citizens. As old as i am, i didnt know this until this happened. Im am a 65 years old. A lady said, they should put the people to work. Why . Dont they deserve anything else any american citizen would deserve when a disaster hit up there in new york. Chris christie was the governor . Host hurricane sandy. Caller i knew you knew it. These people are just like those people. I live in texas. They are helping houston. The president went down there. Why are the puerto ricans, why would they be less, because their skin tone is a little different . A lot of them stills week spanish still speak spanish . The other comment is the nfl. 60 five, i woman, have a taste of jim crow here in texas. If you are not my race you cannot tell me how i feel. I am not white so i cannot tell them how ive how they feel. History, know is in everyone here, unless you are native american came from another country. We need not forget that. This is a melting pot. Let it be a melting pot for everyone. Racism still exists in america. That is something we have to talk about and something we have to get over. Christian,you are a everyone is not, but if you say you are, god is love. Thank you. Host our final call this our calling from, maryland on the line for democrats. Good morning. Caller good morning, sir. Im a vietnam vet and i am upset about the situation, i shouldnt be because this is par for the course in this country. I know, that if they listened to the general, he talked in an interview with the commentators, they would not have been in a dire situation like this. Plan that he is gone over during katrina. He is a black general for one thing, they didnt listen to him. That shows how insidious racism is in this country and it will be that way until some of these people quit denying their rate they are racist, their ideas, brainwash themselves into over the centuries. This goes on on a global basis. Could send a military in, these people are taxpayers, they pay their taxes, they can pay taxes, the president talks about the expense of what they owe. They dont talk about expense when they need things for invasion. The situation in israel, they did it overnight almost. A whole Defense System overnight. They take eight days to do this. He always have an excuse. If they were someone like a state of wyoming where there are very few people of color, the situation would not be that way. It will remain that way until the people stop acting as though it doesnt exist host . Ok. Ok. Lets take a look at what we have on tap tomorrow. Another great show, 8 00 cal tho mas will be here to talk about President Trumps agenda and his relationship with gop leaders. Discusses President Trumps response to nfl players. Atlantics, the Steve Clemons will be here to talk about President Trumps America First foreignpolicy doctrine. That does it for todays washington journal. 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